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TALIBAN forces launched an attack on a newly established joint Afghan army and police checkpoint in eastern Ghazni province yesterday morning, killing at least 13 soldiers and policemen.
Military reinforcements were dispatched to the site of the attack in Khogyani district but were repeatedly ambushed along the way.
Another Taliban attack late on Sunday night in southern Kandahar province killed at least four policemen.
The latest assaults reflect a resurgent Taliban which holds nearly half of Afghanistan, with near-daily attacks on Afghan security forces.
It views the US-backed government in Kabul as a dysfunctional Western puppet and has refused repeated offers to negotiate with it.
The Taliban has stepped up attacks in Ghazni and overran parts of the provincial capital, also called Ghazni, in August.
At the time, hundreds of people fled the city amid intense fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban that killed about 120 military, police and civilians.
